A very useful and eye-opening paper crossed my desk called “Nullification test collections for web spam and SEO” by Jones and Ramesh, Hawking and Craswell from Canberra University in Australia. They want to encourage the compilation of a large corpus for adversial IR research. CMU are bu[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ranking algorithms’
July 12th, 2008 - 1:00 am § in Uncategorized
Google talk about ranking
Google posted an article on their blog about their ranking algorithms. Amit Singhal (in charge of the ranking team at Google) writes about the “no query left behind principle where all queries are dealt with efficiently, how they work very hard to keep the system as simple as possible without [...]

